Reference code: GB-0298-UC/P34
Title: Ushaw College Catholic History Research Papers
Dates of creation: 1800-2021
Extent: 7 boxes
Held by: Ushaw College Library
Language: English
This collection has brought together different research material whose provenance is unknown or is too ephemeral to form its own collection.
Miscellaneous research papers, mostly notes and transcripts on a disparate range of topics relating to Catholic history, including Catholic martyrology, aspects of Ushaw College history, notably Ushaw men in the First World War, the 1851 and 1861
census, priest indexes, copies of recusant documents, and family trees of Catholic families.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from pg.library@durham.ac.uk and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright
owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
UC/P34/1 8 March 1879 - 29 July 1882
Newspaper cuttings collected from the
Tablet on old Catholic families
1 volume
UC/P34/2/1-2 [early 20th century]
Transcripts from the Durham Cathedral registers, including baptism registers (1609-1877), marriage register (1610-1836), and burial registers (1611-1875)
2 notebooks
UC/P34/3 [early 20th century]
Notebooks on various Catholic history subjects:
8 notebooks
UC/P34/3/1 [early 20th century]
Copies of fragments of notes by Mgr William Wrennall on Ushaw College history
1 notebook
UC/P34/3/2 [early 20th century]
Notes on Witham's account of the rebellion at Douai College, October 1689
1 notebook
UC/P34/3/3 [early 20th century]
Transcription of the first 32 pages of John Ward's
“The Old Brotherhood of the English Secular Clergy”
1 notebook
Old Brotherhood Archive (in the Archive of the Archbishop of Westminster)
UC/P34/3/4 [early 20th century]
Notes by Joseph Corbishley on the Benedictine Order in England
1 notebook
UC/P34/3/5 [early 20th century]
Notes (Volume 2) on the Catholic mission at Kendal
1 notebook
UC/P34/3/6 [early 20th century]
Notes on Hornby
1 notebook
UC/P34/3/7 [early 20th century]
Notes on recusant families of Durham
1 notebook
UC/P34/3/8 [early 20th century]
Notes on martyrs referred to in the Knaresbrough MSS
1 notebook
UC/P34/4 1908
Notes and transcripts by Joseph Gillow on the history of Ushaw College
1 volume
UC/P34/5/1-7 [1910 - 1929]
[?Joseph Broadhead's] notes, transcripts and catalogues of the English Martyrs
7 volumes
UC/P34/6 1916 - 23 October 2017
Papers, including notes, correspondence, and copies of articles from the
Ushaw Magazine, relating to research carried out on the role of Ushaw men in the First World War
1 file
UC/P34/7 [1924 x 1936]
Notes by Bishop Joseph Thorman on parishes and priests
1 file
UC/P34/8 [1961 x 1969]
Typescript report on the 1851 and 1861 religious census, with a summary of the Roman Catholic returns
1 file
UC/P34/9 [?1965 x 1969]
Notes by Rev Godfrey Anstruther O.P. for volumes III and IV of
The Seminary Priests
1 file
UC/P34/10 [1970 x 2000]
Genealogical family trees of notable Catholic families, including Eyre, Gillow, Haydock, Chadwick, Weld, Routledge, Rigby, and Clifford
1 file & rolled items
UC/P34/11 [1970 x 1979]
Papers relating to the history of the Franciscans, including notes on the history of the York Franciscan Friary, c.1230-1538
1 file
UC/P34/12/1-3 [1980 x 1993]
Papers collected by J. Greener including printed pamphlets, photocopies of articles, and notes, on the subject of the English Martyrs (mostly St John Boste)
3 files
UC/P34/13/1-3 [1980 x 1983]
Working papers of the Rev J.M. Tweedy, including photocopies of primary and secondary source material, transcripts, and correspondence on the subject of North-East Catholic history, probably for
Popish Elvet : the history of St. Cuthbert's, Durham, v.1/2, (Durham: St Cuthbert's Church, 1981-3)
Includes a set of transcripts of the church notice books of St Cuthbert's, Durham, 1857-1924
3 files
UC/P34/14 1983
Transcript of the copy letter book of Rt Rev Dr William Riddell, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District, 30 October 1844 - 12 March 1847
1 file
Northumberland Record Office: RCD 1/3
UC/P34/15 [?2000]
Biographies of Ushaw and Lisbon priests from the Brentwood Diocesan Archives
1 file
UC/P34/16 [?late 20th century]
Copies of microfilm prints of recusant documents from various archives, including the Lancashire Record Office and the Public Record Office
1 box
UC/P34/17 1912 - 1923
Papers of the civil engineer and Catholic historian, J. R. Baterden, including correspondence, notes, and copies of primary sources, mostly on Catholic missions in Northumberland.
1 file and 2 notebooks
UC/P34/18 25 May 1897 - 29 October 1917
Correspondence between various individuals including W. Grenwell, Mr Welford, Mr Hodgson, William Brown, Joseph Oswald, and others, on research into the history of the mayor of Newcastle, Roger Thornton (-1430)
1 file
UC/P34/19 [19th century]
Historical notes on the foundation of Crook Hall
10f
UC/P34/20 2015 - 2021
Papers of Jim Hughes (1947-2021), mostly research files carried out on various topics using the Ushaw collections, including:
Files 1 - 2: Ushaw College history
Files 3 - 10: John Lingard, subsequently published as articles,
“The Stella hymn: Part 1”,
Catholic Archives, 36 (2016), pp. 60-75 and “The Stella hymn: Part 2”,
Catholic Archives, 37
(2017), pp. 41-62
File 11: Book review of Anthony H. Foreman,
In at the deep end: memoirs of a Catholic priest (Part 2 The parish priest 1976-1995), published in
Catholic Archives, 36 (2016), pp. 92-94. Includes annotated copy of the book
Files 12 - 16: Francis Thompson, subsequently published as articles,
“Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907), Part 1”,
Catholic Archives, 38 (2018), pp. 82-106 and “Francis Thom pson (1859 - 1907: In defence of Francis
Thompson”,
Catholic Archives, 39 (2019), pp. 74-107
Donated by John Hughes, December 2021 (Misc.2021/22:4) and March 2022 (Misc 2021/22:6)
